- Women in Economics at Berkeley has a great summer reading list of recent papers which look at the gender earnings gap in different ways, including short summaries of some very recently published papers in the AER, QJE, and JPE on this issue.
- The NYTimes on how business schools are trying to teach fintech, although with no agreement on what this means or how to do it.
- Examining the external validity of their own IV, Angrist and Lavy (now with two co-authors) go back to their famous Israeli Maimonides rule study of the effect of class size on achievement and find the results are different in more recent years – in contrast to 1991, there is no effect of class size on achievement in the 2002-11 period.
- More on external validity – Lant Pritchett discusses construct vs external validity for education experiments – noting the importance of understanding and describing all the different context and design features for being able to compare and use evidence.
- Pew Research on how Google searches in Arabic for Greece correlate well with migrant flows
- Conference deadline: NEUDC 2017 will be at Tufts on November 4-5. Submissions open July 1 and deadline is August 18.
- Funding opportunity for grad students: J-PAL has a new program that offers financial support to PhD students (tuition assistance of up to $12,000 and a stipend of $13,000) for one semester (approximately 4.5 months) to work on pre-publication reanalyses – that is, to re-analyze RCTs from scratch (starting with the creation of the data set from “raw survey” data, up to production of the final econometric analysis included in the working papers) before the papers are published.
- Finally some appreciation – a 1.5 tonne Monument to Anonymous peer review
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